Bunin, analysis of the work of figures, plan. AND

"Numbers" Bunina I.A.

1) Features of the genre. The work of I.A. Bunin "Numbers" belongs to the genre of the story.

2) Narrative features in the story. The story is narrated in the first person, on behalf of the uncle, who describes the incident and gives a moral assessment of his act. Having punished the boy, the uncle feels that he is wrong, so he “half an hour after you calmed down, looked into the nursery. And how? I went to the door, made a serious face and opened it with a look as if I had some business. An adult faced a moral choice: to admit his guilt and make peace with the child. But pride, the desire to maintain character did not allow the uncle to immediately establish relations with his nephew. The little hero of the story turned out to be morally wiser, who resigned himself, timidly left the nursery and asked his uncle for forgiveness: “Uncle, forgive me. And give me at least a drop of that happiness, the thirst for which so sweetly torments me. Many years have passed, but it is the uncle who remembers that old case with all the details, since at that moment he could not correctly assess the situation.

From what person is the story being told? (on behalf of uncle)

How does the narrator characterize the time of childhood? (it's time for "selfless, that passionate tenderness")

What is the difference between a child and an adult, according to the uncle? (The child is not able to dissemble, quickly forgets the offense, seeks to immediately fulfill his dream.)

3) Features of the plot of the work. The plot of the story I.A. Bunin's "Numbers" is based on a description of a quarrel between a boy and an uncle, which occurred because of the boy's desire to find out the numbers as quickly as possible and the uncle's unwillingness to show them on that particular day. Both heroes were faced with a choice: the nephew had to wait until tomorrow, and the uncle should not be guided by the wise rule: "it's harmful, it's not supposed to spoil children." The immediacy of the childish nature led the boy to "invent a great game: jump up and down, kick the floor with all his might and at the same time scream so loudly that our eardrums almost burst."

4) Characteristics of the heroes of the story.

What was the boy's cherished dream? (see numbers)

What caused the quarrel between uncle and nephew? (The boy wanted to fulfill his desire as quickly as possible: to see the numbers, and the uncle decided to endure the character and show the numbers to his nephew the next day.)

What was the uncle's motivation for deciding not to show the numbers to his nephew that day? (a wise rule: “it’s harmful, it’s not supposed to spoil children”)

How did the boy behave when he learned about his uncle's decision not to show the figures that day? (nephew started naughty)

Why did the uncle yell at his nephew, which pissed him off? (nephew impudently misspoke uncle)

Who is to blame for the quarrel between the boy and the uncle? (both uncle and nephew) Explain your point of view<

Whose side did mother and grandmother take? (uncle) 11 why?

How did the quarrel between the boy and the uncle end? (the boy resigned himself and asked his uncle for forgiveness)

Did the uncle forgive himself for this quarrel? Explain your point of view. (Uncle did not forgive himself, otherwise he would not have remembered the quarrel.)

5) Features of the author's position in the story. The author tries to objectively assess the situation, without blaming anyone. Everyone (both the boy and the uncle) is to blame for the quarrel in his own way, but nevertheless, an adult should be wiser and try to find a way out of the situation.

6) The meaning of the title of the story. The story of I.A. Bunin is called “Numbers”, since the numbers are a boy’s dream, an object that caused a quarrel between a nephew and an uncle.

The quarrel between the characters brings us to the relationship between adults and children. Can people always understand each other? Can adults always understand children? Coming to an understanding is sometimes very difficult, and children especially suffer from this. And adults can make unforgivable mistakes.

The author raises not only the problems of relationships between adults and children, but also philosophical problems about the opposition of a person to the generally accepted laws of life, which an adult who understands them can put up with, but a child cannot yet.

The story is narrated in the first person, more precisely, on behalf of the hero-narrator. It is important for the author to understand what the hero and his nephew feel and what thoughts they live on.

“My dear, when you grow up, will you remember how one winter evening you went out of the nursery into the dining room, stopped on the threshold - this was after one of our quarrels with you - and, lowering your eyes, made such a sad face?
I must tell you: you are a big naughty. When something captivates you, you don't know how to keep it. You often haunt the whole house with your screaming and running around from early morning until late at night. But I don’t know anything more touching than you, when, having enjoyed your rampage, you quiet down, wander around the rooms and, finally, come up and orphanly cling to my shoulder! But if the matter occurs after a quarrel, and if at that moment I say even one kind word to you, then it is impossible to express what you are doing with my heart then! How impulsively you rush to kiss me, how tightly you wrap your arms around my neck, in an abundance of that selfless devotion, that passionate tenderness that only childhood is capable of!

But this time the quarrel between uncle and nephew was too strong.

“Having suffered your grief, your heart with a new passion returned to that cherished dream that had so captivated you all this day. And in the evening, as soon as this dream again took possession of you, you forgot both your resentment, and your pride, and your firm decision to hate me all your life. You paused, gathered your strength, and suddenly, in a hurry and agitation, said to me:
- Uncle, forgive me ... I won't do it again ... And, please, show me the numbers anyway! Please!
Was it possible to delay the answer after that? But I still slowed down. I'm a very, very smart uncle, you see."

It is surprising that the author describes his hero with such epithets: smart, reasonable, wise - this is how the narrator characterizes himself. But is this reality? Very often these words sound ironic. Is the smart and judicious one who acts like everyone else? The second chapter allows us to see the beginning of the conflict.

“That day you woke up with a new thought, with a new dream that captured your whole soul.
Joys that have not yet been experienced have just opened up for you: to have your own picture books, a pencil case, colored pencils - certainly colored ones! - and learn to read, draw and write numbers. And all this at once, in one day, as soon as possible. Opening your eyes in the morning, you immediately called me to the nursery and fell asleep with ardent requests: to subscribe to a children's magazine as soon as possible, to buy books, pencils, paper, and immediately set to work on numbers ...

But joy, mixed with impatience, worried you more and more. And so, when we - grandmother, mother and I - sat at tea before evening, you found another outlet for your excitement.

The boy does not agree to wait for the fulfillment of his dream, and this is an external conflict, but at the same time, an internal conflict appears in his uncle's soul. The uncle, as expected, must wait for time, he does what the rules require, and the child does not understand him. But the uncle continues to show his firmness. “My heart quietly told me that I was committing a great sin at that moment - I was depriving you of happiness, joy ... But then a wise rule came to mind: it’s harmful, it’s not supposed to spoil children.” Thus, an internal conflict develops in the uncle's soul. How should he act: as his heart tells him or as he should according to the rules?

In the third chapter we can follow the continuation of the conflict. “Not only did I not forget about you after your impudent cry, but I went cold from a sudden hatred for you. And I already had to use efforts to pretend that I did not notice you, and continue to play the role of calm and reasonable. All adults at this moment unite against the boy. They all hurt, they all worry, but they endure this pause.

“From pain, from a sharp and sudden insult that so rudely struck you in the heart in one of the most joyful moments of your childhood, you, flying out the door, rolled into such a terrible, such a piercing viola, which no singer in the world is capable of. And for a long, long time he froze ... Then he took even more air into his lungs and raised the viola already to an incredible height ...
Then the pauses between the upper and lower notes began to shorten, and the screams flowed incessantly. Sobs were added to the cries, cries for help were added to the sobs.

“... I lit a cigarette without raising my eyes to my grandmother. And grandmother’s lips and eyebrows suddenly trembled, and, turning away to the window, she began to quickly, quickly beat the table with a teaspoon ...

And grandma barely sat still.
Her heart was torn to the nursery, but, to please my mother and me, she braced herself, looked out from under quivering eyebrows at the darkening street and quickly pounded her spoon on the table.
Then you also understood that we decided not to give up, that no one would quench your pain and resentment with kisses, pleas for forgiveness.

The boy screams to the point of exhaustion, at this moment his condition is depicted not as a whim, but as a real human grief. And adults understand that for a child every moment of his life is the discovery of something new, and he experiences this moment much more acutely than adults. The child feels this resentment, it has penetrated into his heart much more strongly. But the conflict continues. Something forces the child to go to reconciliation. Grandmother hit the living thing.

“- And who will buy him a pencil case, papers, a book with pictures now? What a penalty! Penal - back and forth. What about numbers? After all, you can't buy this for any amount of money. However,” she added, “do as you please. Sit here alone in the dark.
And she left the nursery.
It's over - your pride has been broken! You have been defeated."

“The more unrealizable the dream, the more captivating, the more captivating, the more unrealizable. I already know it.
From my earliest days I have been in her power. But I also know that the more my dream is dear to me, the less hope I have of achieving it. And I've been at war with her for a long time. I am lying: I pretend that I am indifferent. But what could you do?
Happiness, happiness!
You opened your eyes in the morning, filled with a thirst for happiness. And with a childish credulity, with an open heart, he rushed to life: hurry, hurry!
But life answered:
- Be patient.
- Oh please! you exclaimed passionately.
"Shut up or you won't get anything!"
- Well, wait a minute! you shouted angrily.
And silent for a while.
But your heart was beating. You raged, knocked down chairs with a roar, kicked the floor, screamed loudly from the joyful thirst that overwhelmed your heart ... Then life from all its might struck you in the heart with a blunt knife of resentment. And you rolled into a frantic cry of pain, a call for help.
But even here not a single muscle on the face of life trembled... Humble yourself, humble yourself!
And you reconciled."

In the next chapter, love and tenderness return to the soul of the hero. The conflict has been overcome, and it has been overcome at the cost of childish humility.

“Do you remember how timidly you came out of the nursery and what you said to me?
- Uncle! - you said to me, exhausted by the struggle for happiness and still yearning for it. "Uncle, forgive me."

At the cost of childish generosity, purity and openness, the conflict between uncle and nephew is overcome.

“Well, God bless you! Bring a chair here to the table, give me pencils, paper ...
And with what joy your eyes shone!
How hard you have been! How you were afraid to anger me, how submissive, delicate, careful you tried to be in your every movement. (Fig. 2.)

Rice. 2. Uncle and nephew ()

The uncle's perception of the nephew leads to the conclusion that the uncle understands the boy very well and sees why the child behaves the way he does. He admires his joy, but very often his heart begins to resent when the child does not obey the command of adults. Acute pity for the boy overwhelms the uncle, and he understands that the child is also capable of experiencing insults. Now let's see how the uncle perceives himself.

“My heart quietly told me that I was committing a great sin at that moment - I was depriving you of happiness, joy ... But then a wise rule came to mind: it’s harmful, it’s not supposed to spoil children ...

It was unbearable for me too. I wanted to get up from my seat, open the door to the nursery and immediately, with one hot word, stop your suffering. But is this consistent with the rules of reasonable upbringing and with the dignity of a just, albeit strict, uncle?

All the time the uncle behaves unnaturally and does what he is supposed to do. And here another conflict arises - the conflict between the heart and the mind. In our case, the mind wins, the uncle pauses, and the child is the first to go to reconciliation. But it is not for nothing that after many years the boy no longer remembers this incident, but this incident remained in his uncle's soul. And now the heart wins, and despite the past years, the uncle understands that he was wrong.

With his story, Ivan Bunin wants to say how important it is in life to understand each other, to try not to offend. It is very easy to offend, but it is much more difficult to be the first to reconcile. Let's go back to the title of the story. Numbers are like a dream, numbers are a symbol of calculation (uncle is smart, he knows the numbers). But not always in life you need to be smart and follow the rules. Sometimes you need to listen to your heart.

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Homework

Answer the questions.

1. How did Zhenya behave after his uncle refused to show him the number? Support your words with quotes from the text of the story.
2. How did the uncle feel at the time of the quarrel with his nephew? Can his attitude towards Zhenya be considered cruel? Justify the answer.
3. What conclusion can be drawn about the character of the boy? What qualities did the author endow him with?
4. Why did the adults not take pity on the crying Zhenya? Is this fair, in your opinion?
5. What is the story of I.A. Bunin "Numbers"?

Answer in writing the question: why the story of I.A. Bunin is called "Numbers"?
Write a description of one of the characters in the story.

1) Features of the genre. The work of I.A. Bunin "Numbers" belongs to the genre of the story.

2) Narrative features in the story. The story is narrated in the first person, on behalf of the uncle, who describes the incident and gives a moral assessment of his act. Having punished the boy, the uncle feels that he is wrong, so he “half an hour after you calmed down, looked into the nursery. And how? I went to the door, made a serious face and opened it with a look as if I had some business. An adult faced a moral choice: to admit his guilt and make peace with the child. But pride, the desire to maintain character did not allow the uncle to immediately establish relations with his nephew. The little hero of the story turned out to be morally wiser, who resigned himself, timidly left the nursery and asked his uncle for forgiveness: “Uncle, forgive me. And give me at least a drop of that happiness, the thirst for which so sweetly torments me. Many years have passed, but it is the uncle who remembers that old case with all the details, since at that moment he could not correctly assess the situation.

From what person is the story being told? (on behalf of uncle)

How does the narrator characterize the time of childhood? (it's time for "selfless, that passionate tenderness")

What is the difference between a child and an adult, according to the uncle? (The child is not able to dissemble, quickly forgets the offense, seeks to immediately fulfill his dream.)

3) Features of the plot of the work. The plot of the story I.A. Bunin's "Numbers" is based on a description of a quarrel between a boy and an uncle, which occurred because of the boy's desire to find out the numbers as quickly as possible and the uncle's unwillingness to show them on that particular day. Both heroes were faced with a choice: the nephew had to wait until tomorrow, and the uncle should not be guided by the wise rule: "it's harmful, it's not supposed to spoil children." The immediacy of the childish nature led the boy to "invent a great game: jump up and down, kick the floor with all his might and at the same time scream so loudly that our eardrums almost burst."

4) Characteristics of the heroes of the story.

What was the boy's cherished dream? (see numbers)

What was the uncle's motivation for deciding not to show the numbers to his nephew that day? (a wise rule: “it’s harmful, it’s not supposed to spoil children”)

How did the boy behave when he learned about his uncle's decision not to show the figures that day? (nephew started naughty)

Why did the uncle yell at his nephew, which pissed him off? (nephew impudently misspoke uncle)

Who is to blame for the quarrel between the boy and the uncle? (both uncle and nephew) Explain your point of view<

Whose side did mother and grandmother take? (uncle) 11 why?

How did the quarrel between the boy and the uncle end? (the boy resigned himself and asked his uncle for forgiveness)

Did the uncle forgive himself for this quarrel? Explain your point of view. (Uncle did not forgive himself, otherwise he would not have remembered the quarrel.)

5) Features of the author's position in the story. The author tries to objectively assess the situation, without blaming anyone. Everyone (both the boy and the uncle) is to blame for the quarrel in his own way, but nevertheless, an adult should be wiser and try to find a way out of the situation.

6) The meaning of the title of the story. The story of I.A. Bunin is called “Numbers”, since the numbers are a boy’s dream, an object that caused a quarrel between a nephew and an uncle.

Title of the work: Numbers

Year of writing: 1906

Genre: story

Main characters: boy Zhenya, his uncle, mum And grandmother

After reading the summary of the story "Numbers" for the reader's diary, you will definitely refer to the full text of the story about the complex relationship between adults and children.

Plot

Zhenya lives with her mother and grandmother, and her uncle comes to visit them and brings gifts. Zhenya is a big naughty person, he rarely receives refusals in his desires, but at the same time he is a cheerful, healthy, very active child at an age when you want to explore the world and splash out your joy on others. Uncle promised to show him how to write numbers and teach him how to write. In a fit of happiness, the boy began to make noise and play pranks, for which he was punished and put in a dark, quiet room. The quarrel between the child and adults continued until the evening, because he did not want to apologize for his pampering. And only the grandmother, already at dusk, was able to persuade the boy to make peace with his uncle. And the next morning, the boy and the man were doing an interesting thing together: writing numbers with colored pencils.

Conclusion (my opinion)

The story is told in the first person, the author recalls a real incident, his quarrel with his nephew and reminds him of it, who has already matured. This story is useful for both children and adults, because the author tells in great detail about the change of feelings and experiences during an ugly quarrel. I think that both children and their parents will find something useful for themselves in this work.

We reflect on the read story "Numbers".

To the question: “Who is to blame for the quarrel between the boy and his uncle?” - cannot be answered unambiguously. At first glance, it seems that the cause of the quarrel is the behavior of the boy, who stamps his feet on the floor. But if we read the story more carefully, we will see that the uncle is annoyed precisely because he realizes his original lie and mental laziness, which prevented him from immediately buying pencils and paper for the child and showing the numbers. He understands his guilt, but it is difficult for a person to realize himself guilty; he feels annoyed by this and looks for an excuse to pour out his irritation. Such an occasion becomes the prank of a child. Uncle calls the reason for the boy's pranks an excess of vital energy, which is looking for an outlet in physical activity, in movement. The uncle condemns his own act: “I was already ashamed, and I lit a cigarette without raising my eyes to my grandmother.”

Grandmother and mother support uncle: mother believes that it is necessary to be impartial so that the child does not grow up spoiled, and grandmother, for the sake of uncle and mother, "barely sat still." The narration is conducted on behalf of the uncle, so it is very difficult to isolate the position of the author in the work. In our opinion, the task of the author in this story is not to support the uncle or the boy, but to show the inner world of the uncle and the boy, the need for an adult to peer into the inner world of the child and analyze the motives of his actions.